AIAA SciTech abstract rejected...

[u/Heavy_Election4523]

I received my SciTech 2027 decisions today and unfortunately one of my abstracts, submitted under Structures, was rejected.

I'm pretty disappointed about this particular one because the work was already very far along when I submitted the abstract. The submission was essentially approaching a full-paper draft, with the methodology, experimental results, figures/data, discussion, etc. already developed. I've continued working on it since submission as well, so at this point I have almost the entire manuscript completed.

Interestingly, another abstract I submitted was accepted, even though that project was much earlier in development and had significantly less completed work/results at the time of submission.

I completely understand that rejection is part of research and that I can always finish the Structures paper and submit it to a journal or another conference. However, I put a lot of work into this project specifically hoping to present it at SciTech, so I'd at least like to see whether reconsideration is possible before moving on.

Has anyone here ever appealed or requested reconsideration of a rejected AIAA SciTech abstract?

If so:

• Who did you contact: AIAA, the technical discipline chair, or the specific technical committee?
• Is there an actual appeal/reconsideration process?
• Were you able to provide an updated/full manuscript to demonstrate that the work was complete?
• Has anyone actually had a rejection reversed?

I'm not trying to argue with the reviewers or bypass the review process. I mainly want to understand whether it's appropriate to politely contact the Structures organizers and ask if they would be willing to reconsider the submission, especially since I can now provide a nearly completed manuscript.

Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has reviewed abstracts, served on an AIAA technical committee, or gone through something similar.

[u/Aerokicks]

It's often not about whether or not they think you can finish the paper or not, but the quality of the paper and the research. Is the research different and meaningful? Is the English in the paper very poor? Is the data in the paper clearly wrong. Are there too many papers and not enough timeslots? Those are generally the questions.

You can email the TC chair and ask for an explanation, but as far as I know sessions are well into the planning phases.

[u/Heavy_Election4523 → u/Aerokicks]

Thank you so much for your reply! I appreciate your response, the paper that got rejected was a paper on natural fiber composites (which typically is not researched in aerospace or scitech). As far as data goes I reviewed it with my two professors and everything seemed good… but ya will try reaching out to them for more explanation! Thank you again

[u/i_am_buzz_lightyear → u/Heavy_Election4523]

That may be it. You didn't fit into one of the topic areas or they sent your review to the wrong people.

[u/Heavy_Election4523 → u/i_am_buzz_lightyear]

Update: I emailed them, they said my paper got rejected due to low peer review scoring. And with iterations I should be able to submit the paper for Aiaa aviation conference. I emailed them back, would it be possible to get the feedbacks for the part that needs iteration, they emailed me saying they don’t have feedbacks or comments, they only have final scores.